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Harry Truman: We have since grown to understand that unemployment is a national as well as a local problem, but we still have far to…

On the recordMarch 20, 1949
We have since grown to understand that unemployment is a national as well as a local problem, but we still have far to go in perfecting the democratic instruments by which we can maintain high employment and insure a progressively growing economy.
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Harry Truman
Democratic · Missouri

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Address Before the United States Conference of Mayors.

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